diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AIOStatisticsContext.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AIOStatisticsContext.java
index d2ae9d7dc3..70dc5ee476 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AIOStatisticsContext.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AIOStatisticsContext.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.assertCapabilities;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.dataset;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.writeDataset;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ATestUtils.disablePrefetching;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.IOStatisticAssertions.assertThatStatisticCounter;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.IOStatisticAssertions.verifyStatisticCounterValue;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.StreamStatisticNames.STREAM_READ_BYTES;
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ public class ITestS3AIOStatisticsContext extends AbstractS3ATestBase {
   @Override
   protected Configuration createConfiguration() {
     Configuration configuration = super.createConfiguration();
+    disablePrefetching(configuration);
     enableIOStatisticsContext();
     return configuration;
   }
@@ -253,6 +255,7 @@ public void testThreadIOStatisticsForDifferentThreads()
     // Worker thread work and wait for it to finish.
     TestWorkerThread workerThread = new TestWorkerThread(path, null);
     long workerThreadID = workerThread.getId();
+    LOG.info("Worker thread ID: {} ", workerThreadID);
     workerThread.start();
     workerThread.join();
 
@@ -463,6 +466,8 @@ private class TestWorkerThread extends Thread implements Runnable {
 
     @Override
     public void run() {
+      // Setting the worker thread's name.
+      Thread.currentThread().setName("worker thread");
       S3AFileSystem fs = getFileSystem();
       byte[] data = new byte[BYTES_SMALL];
 
@@ -470,6 +475,9 @@ public void run() {
       if (ioStatisticsContext != null) {
         IOStatisticsContext.setThreadIOStatisticsContext(ioStatisticsContext);
       }
+      // Storing context in a field to not lose the reference in a GC.
+      IOStatisticsContext ioStatisticsContextWorkerThread =
+          getCurrentIOStatisticsContext();
 
       // Write in the worker thread.
       try (FSDataOutputStream out = fs.create(workerThreadPath)) {
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
index 6162ed1312..260c5fc504 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
@@ -1488,4 +1488,13 @@ public static S3AInputStream getS3AInputStream(
       throw new AssertionError("Not an S3AInputStream: " + inner);
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Disable Prefetching streams from S3AFileSystem in tests.
+   * @param conf Configuration to remove the prefetch property from.
+   */
+  public static void disablePrefetching(Configuration conf) {
+    // TODO: Reinstate once HADOOP-18028 is merged.
+    // removeBaseAndBucketOverrides(conf, PREFETCH_ENABLED_KEY);
+  }
 }